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James L. Ferguson Professor of Economics Erol Balkan recently participated in the Third World Social Forum in Port Alegre, Brazil. Balkan served as a panelist for a session titled "Lessons of the Turkish Economic and Political Crisis" that incorporated his research on speculative short-term capital, "hot money," and its relationship to financial crisis in developing countries. Balkan was one of the delegates affiliated with the Independent Social Scientists Association of Turkey.

Professor of Sociology Dennis Gilbert presented a paper, "Magicians: The Mexican Middle Class and the Economic Crisis," at the annual meetings of the Latin American Studies Association in March 2003.

Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies Ann Frechette reviewed Michael Hutt's Unbecoming Citizens: Culture, Nationhood, and the Flight of Refugees from Bhutan, for the Journal of Refugee Studies, March, 2003.

Ken Herold, director of library information systems, presented a paper on collaborative digital objects as special intellectual artifacts at the First European Conference on Computing and Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Scotland. The conjecture stems from Turing's 1947 notion of "cultural search" and how such a concept might be implemented in networked systems.

From Sara Draucker on Antarctica 2003 expedition: Our trip across the Drake Passage continues. The sea has been very calm and though there's not too much scenery compared to the last couple weeks, we can't complain! We should arrive in Punta Arenas tomorrow night (Saturday)- a little early because the weather's been so great. Enjoy the sunset.

Professors of History Maurice Isserman and Esther Kanipe traveled to France and Belgium with the students of the College's Sophomore Seminar on World War II, "The Politics and History of World War II." The group traveled around some of the most important sites in the European theatre of the war.  The trip included tours of Omaha Beach, Barquette Loch, German cemeteries in Normandy, Bastogne, and the site of the Battle of the Bulge. Students honored Waldron Moser Polgreen, Hamilton College ’31, by laying a wreath at his grave.

High school students from Proctor High in Utica visited science departments at Hamilton College on March 28. The students attended lectures in the chemistry, biology and psychology departments.

The O'Brien family would like to invite all Hamilton alumni to a Book Party to celebrate the publication of Battling for Saipan, a story of heroism and determination during World War II in the Pacific campaign. The book was written by the late Francis A. O'Brien, Hamilton Class of 1958. It was published by Random House books in February 2003. This celebration will be held at Books A Million, 1451 Chain Bridge Road, McLean, Virginia.

Phil Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was interviewed for a Los Angeles Times article about former New York State Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who died on March 26. Klinkner said Moynihan was an "'intellectual giant in the Senate' who, among other things, led the way in the 1960s to a rethinking of the politics and policy of race, welfare and urban life."

John Rice '78 is profiled in an Atlanta Business Chronicle article.